Stone by Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stone by Stone write by Robert Thorson. This book was released on 2009-05-26. Stone by Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story-about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.
Stone Upon Stone
Stone Upon Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stone Upon Stone write by Wieslaw Mysliwski. This book was released on 2013-11-04. Stone Upon Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the PEN Translation Prize A “sweeping . . . irreverent” masterpiece of postwar Polish literature that “chronicles the modernization of Poland and celebrates the persistence of desire” (The New Yorker) Hailed as one of the best ever books in translation, Stone Upon Stone is Wieslaw Mysliwski’s grand epic in the rural tradition—a profound and irreverent stream of memory cutting through the rich and varied terrain of one man’s connection to the land, to his family and community, to women, to tradition, to God, to death, and to what it means to be alive. Wise and impetuous, plainspoken and compassionate, Szymek recalls his youth in their village, his time as a guerrilla soldier, as a wedding official, barber, policeman, lover, drinker, and caretaker for his invalid brother. Filled with interwoven stories and voices, by turns hilarious and moving, Szymek’s narrative exudes the profound wisdom of one who has suffered, yet who loves life to the very core.
Building with Stone
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The Prison Minyan
The Prison Minyan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prison Minyan write by Jonathan Stone. This book was released on 2021-12-13. The Prison Minyan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatter the peace 'Erudite, trenchant and touching' - Michael Arditti 'Delectable... glorious... this most cherishably Jewish of books.' - Jewish Chronicle The scene is Otisville Prison, upstate New York. A crew of fraudsters, tax evaders, trigamists and forgers discuss matters of right and wrong in a Talmudic study and prayer group, or 'minyan', led by a rabbi who's a fellow convict. As the only prison in the federal system with a kosher deli, Otisville is the penitentiary of choice for white-collar Jewish offenders, many of whom secretly like the place. They've learned to game the system, so when the regime is toughened to punish a newly arrived celebrity convict who has upset the 45th president, they find devious ways to fight back. Shadowy forces up the ante by trying to 'Epstein' – ie assassinate – the newcomer, and visiting poetry professor Deborah Liston ends up in dire peril when she sees too much. She has helped the minyan look into their souls. Will they now step up to save her? Jonathan Stone brings the sensibility of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth to the post-truth era in a sharply comic novel that is also wise, profound and deeply moral.
Sermons in Stone
Sermons in Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sermons in Stone write by Susan Allport. This book was released on 1994-08. Sermons in Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1871 there were 252,539 miles of stone walls in New England and New York enough to circle the earth ten times.
